Posted on 01/28/2019 8:08:47 AM PST by Theoria
A man and woman walked out of a subway car at the 51st Street station in Manhattan and darted into the next one on the same train. A plainclothes police officer noticed.
It was rush hour on a Tuesday evening in September on the busy No. 6 line. The officer watched as the woman dipped her hand into a commuter’s purse while her partner stood in front of her, shielding her from view, according to the officer’s affidavit. The woman lifted out a wallet, and the officer and his partners closed in.
She threw the wallet to the ground, and the commuter quickly identified it as hers. The woman, Jenny Gomez Velandia, 27, and her accomplice, John Diaz-Albarracin, 31, were arrested, according to a criminal complaint. What seemed like a routine pickpocketing had been thwarted.
But the suspects were not routine. Unlike most pickpockets, they had no criminal history in New York City. They were not locals. They were from Colombia and had come to New York for the purpose of stealing wallets on subways, one of several international pickpocket rings to descend on the transit system in 2018, the police said.
“They come, they do what they can do, then they move,” said Chief Edward Delatorre, who leads the Police Department’s transit bureau. The woman and man arrested in September were tied to nine other thefts in the subway, the police said.
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“International Pickpockets Association” aka the Democrat Party
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yup
Just two more reasons to never again visit New York City! America’s premiere $hit hole!
They came here to steal. When the Columbian pickpockets were arrested a lack of a criminal history in New York is a huge advantage....and they know it.
Mr. Jimenez pled guilty to grand larceny, and was sentenced to 30 days in jail.
Mr. Pinzto, 18, was sentenced to three days community service; Mr. Santos is 17, and thus his case was sealed.
The two from Colombia received 70 hours.’
I caught a pickpocket in the dc metro once. I held his scrawny behind over the ledge by the tracks until he gave me back my water bottle. Yeah, he risked his life over a water bottle. I wanted to stomp him but I was dressed up for work so just let him go.
Really I went to New York recently and it was very nice - I had been more expecting it to be a crap hole but it was just the opposite. I spend a week walking around going to the parks, museums just plain old wandering. That high line trail is simply amazing. Los Angeles is much more run down if didn’t have the beaches it would be utterly unremarkable
It’s rare any ever get deported. There’s always a lawyer ready to fight deportation and drag it out for years or until their clients can steal another identity and disappear.
Fixed it.
Of course they won’t be deported. They are in Cuomo & DumblASSio’s sanctuary city and sanctuary state, where taxpayers are here to act as prey for the scum of every other country to rob, rape, or murder. It is for reasons like them that I keep my valuables on my person, not in any external carrying pouch. They are also the reason I hate to go into Manhattan and thereby use the subway for any reason.
You almost had it right. It's now spelled CONgress. That's closer to what they do to the American public.
Go to Brooklyn, go to Queens, Go to Harlem. Los Angeles has the Miracle Mile, NYC has Mid-Town Manhattan.
Yes...and give them the idiot taxpayers in NY’s money for free! It’s discrimination making them poor folks stress out picking pockets on the subway with the thousands of other socialists!
Gosh, our new country is sure great, isn't it?
I wouldn’t think that democrat congresscritters rode subways.
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Don’t think it necessary to name just the Ds...plenty of (so called) Rs could fit the profile.
That said, they (congresscritters) don’t have to mingle with the ‘unwashed’, they just pass another tax or write another bill while in the comforts of the TAXPAYER provided digs....
I thought we voted in REPRESENTATIVES and instead, we are and have created a RULING CLASS which writes its own rule and regulations which WE have to follow but they and their minions etal are exempt.
Time for a COMPLETE overhaul, Politicians AND there staffs.
I think most of all I was surprised by how friendly New Yorkers in general were - I wasn't expecting that. Maybe I got lucky and was there during perfect weather so pretty much everyone was in a good mood. I'd go again if only to have some more of that pizza they have there - that was pretty darn good.
Also I didn't run into any pick pockets to sour my ambling disposition
I got my pocket picked on the subway in Mexico City ten years ago. Still looking for the guy.
He was short and swarthy.
I think I saw him!
One thing I found out about some members of the underclass: they move around a lot. One month they may be in Philadelphia. Another month they move in with relatives in Detroit. In each location they might register for welfare. In each location they might register to vote.
One of the biggest things Trump could do, is mandate positive biometric ID of everyone who applies for any means-tested welfare program.
Hey, that sounds like the guy who does our neighbor's yard work. I will have him arrested!
This looks like an example where the use of caning for punishment might be a good idea. Maybe the first lawyer who complains about “cruel & unusual” should get some of the same.
In NYC, you also have to watch your credit card very carefully, too — the “pickpockets” are behind the counter.
Years ago, we bought some souvenirs for the kids at the Empire State Building gift shop. The clerk didn’t hand my credit card back and I didn’t notice it was missing until we had hot cocoa a half hour later up by Central Park. Went back to the gift shop, but it was closed. Called Visa and, sure enough, lots of foreign phone calls showed up immediately on the card. Cancelled it immediately and didn’t pay for the theft, but that sure created a big hassle for the rest of the trip.
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